Subject: Olympic Committee: Take a stand in Pyeongchang 2018 against
the dog meat trade!

National Olympic Committee in:

Algeria,

Angola,

Benin,

Botswana,

Burkina Faso,

Burundi,

Cameroun,

Cape verde,

Central African Republic,

Chad,

Comoros,

Kongo,

Democratic Rep. of Kongo,

Djibouti,

Egypt.

Dear Sir, Madam, to whom it concerns:

PyeongChang, South Korea, is set to play the host for the 2018 Winter
Olympics.

An international gathering of elite athletes, sports fans, governments and
businesses on such a grand scale is a unique platform for taking a meaningful
stand against the widely condemned, barbaric and inhumane dog and cat meat trade
in South Korea.

We know you are busy preparing for this epic sporting event.

However, we urge you to spare just a few minutes of your time to watch this
video, as fellow people with compassion for animals, whether they are raised for
our consumption or as our companions, working partners and guardians, we know
you will agree that the current practice and attitude of those involved in this
medieval industry is completely unacceptable and abhorrent.

Forced to endure the most extreme deprivation and unimaginable torment from
the moment they are born until the day they are brutally slaughtered; dogs (our
best friends) are battery farmed - imprisoned in cramped, rusty, raised cages
all their lives with no protection from extreme elements.

They have no access to water, exercise, or medical care.

Their eardrums are often burst to prevent them from barking. Until, often
in front of other live dogs, they are electrocuted, hanged, beaten skinned or
burnt alive in the ignorant belief that such suffering will improve their
taste.

Could you imagine this happening to your best friend?

This industry is by no means small scale, thousands upon thousands of dogs
are factory farmed in this way every day, there is no emphasis on even the most
basic and cheapest humane farming methods in this operation.

This trade has no basis in promoting "culture" or tradition of the Korean
people, it is purely driven by greed and the profits that can be made in this
severely under-regulated, tax free sector which in itself is highly unsanitary
and a severe risk to both human and animal health.

Please do not look the other way, please do not see this issue as a
'cultural difference', we urge you to look at this issue with unbridled
compassion and to use whatever means or methods you can to add your voice to the
many already calling for change in south Korea.

We urge you to add your voice to social media and other campaigns. Please
use this unique opportunity to help change the lives of so many dogs and cats
condemned to a life in the meat trade.

If South Korea knows the world is watching and is asking for change, and if
South Korea wants to be respected as a nation of conscience, South Koreans need
to strengthen their abysmal and outdated animal welfare laws and permanently ban
dog and cat consumption.

Subject: Rome NY, Friendship city to Daegu Suseong District in S.
Korea

Dear Mayor Izzo,

Dear Common Council members:

Daegu Suseong District became Friendship city with Rome NY in
2008.

Dog-meat consumption is currently being practiced in that district,
regardless of the fact that it is illegal under South Korean Law because of the
barbaric ways in which this takes place– but the laws are not enforced.

The dog and cat meat trades involve extreme and widespread animal cruelty,
and the animals suffer unimaginable pain and distress.

These creatures cannot speak for themselves which is why I am writing on
their behalf.

I believe that your city wishes to be made aware of this ongoing issue, and
not want to be affiliated with a district where illegal and immoral torture is
being carried out on any animal, and particularly not on those that are loyal,
trusting and sentient creatures, which look up to us humans as being their
guardians.

These illegal trades are still being allowed to continue by Korean
authorities – even though there is a large growing opposition from pet owners
across South Korea, and throughout the world.

So, I am asking you to please speak with your counterparts in Daegu Suseong
District, Mayor Jin-Hoon Lee, to urge them to enforce their own laws, not ignore
them, and to show compassion towards their companion animals, and respect to
their own citizens, by bringing these brutal trades finally to an end!

With the Winter Olympics coming up in 2018, this is the time to make
change; this is the time to stop the illegal, inhumane and unnecessary cruelty.

I know that South Korea has many beautiful, admirable and noble practices
and customs worth preserving, but this is not one of them.

Thank you for your time and understanding.

Please let me know how you feel about this hideous and so often concealed
subject, thank you.

Daejeon Yuseong District became Friendship city with Yolo County in
2015.

Dog-meat consumption is currently being practiced in that district,
regardless of the fact that it is illegal under South Korean Law because of the
barbaric ways in which this takes place– but the laws are not enforced.

The dog and cat meat trades involve extreme and widespread animal cruelty,
and the animals suffer unimaginable pain and distress.

These creatures cannot speak for themselves which is why I am writing on
their behalf.

I believe that your county wishes to be made aware of this ongoing issue,
and not want to be affiliated with a district where illegal and immoral torture
is being carried out on any animal, and particularly not on those that are
loyal, trusting and sentient creatures, which look up to us humans as being
their guardians.

These illegal trades are still being allowed to continue by Korean
authorities – even though there is a large growing opposition from pet owners
across South Korea, and throughout the world.

So, I am asking you to please speak with your counterparts in Daejeon
Yuseong District, especially Mayor Tae-Jeong Heo, to urge them to enforce their
own laws, not ignore them, and to show compassion towards their companion
animals, and respect to their own citizens, by bringing these brutal trades
finally to an end!

With the Winter Olympics coming up in 2018, this is the time to make
change; this is the time to stop the illegal, inhumane and unnecessary cruelty.

I know that South Korea has many beautiful, admirable and noble practices
and customs worth preserving, but this is not one of them.

Thank you for your time and understanding.

Please let me know how you feel about this hideous and so often concealed
subject, thank you.

Subject: World Congress for Korean Politics and Society. Rebuild
‘trust’ by removing the ‘obstacles’ of the dog and cat meat
trades

Dear Delegates of the World Congress for Korean Politics and Society:

Your forthcoming World Congress for Korean Politics and Society (June
22-24, Seoul, South Korea) notes its theme as being one to rebuild “Trust in
Peace and Democracy”.

Scholars and professionals will be brought together from around the world
to discuss “innovative ways” of overcoming the “serious obstacles to political
stability, economic justice, and social integration”.

In preparation for this event, we ask you to, please, take a minute to
watch these videos of South Korea’s dog meat industry:

Given the growing strength of opposition to the dog and cat meat trades,
both within South Korea and throughout the world, this Congress represents a
unique opportunity to achieve its objective of rebuilding trust and
strengthening social integration, by supporting and finding a way to put a
permanent end to the dog and cat meat trades – unregulated trades that are
promoted by archaic beliefs that eating dog meat products enhances male
virility, amongst other fallacies.

Aberrant trades in which dogs and cats are forced to endure unimaginable
torment and deprivation from the moment they are born until the day they are
barbarically slaughtered.

These animals are imprisoned in cramped cages with no access to water or
exercise, they are hanged, beaten or burnt to death, often in front of other
deeply distressed animals, due to the misguided, and disproved, belief that the
more the animal suffers the more it increases the health benefits to the
consumer.

Dog meat consumption is currently illegal in South Korea, yet despite
indigenous and international opposition it is allowed to continue.

The majority of South Korean citizens do not want to be associated with the
consumption of companion animals, and the brutal slaughter of dogs across South
Korea is severely tarnishing (whether justifiably or not) the names of leading
South Korean companies.

Indeed there are a growing number of international campaigns to boycott
South Korean goods and tourism until the government puts an end to these
abhorrent trades.

In addition to the many social, environmental, and health problems
associated with dog meat consumption, it is also in South Korea’s interests to
end these trades as the world will not stop its condemnation for such unchecked
cruelty.

I therefore urge you to, please, take this opportunity to help bring an end
to the inhumanity of the dog and cat meat trades by supporting their
abolition.

South Korea has many noble and admirable customs worth promoting and
preserving – the torture and consumption of companion animals is not one of
them.